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How Meta’s MAGA heel turn is a play for global power
Law professor Kate Klonick breaks down the unprecedented new era of tech platforms.
Meta’s changed its rules to openly allow more slurs and hate speech on its platforms, TikTok was banned and sort of unbanned, and a bunch of tech CEOs attended the second Trump inauguration. I invited Kate Klonick, a lawyer as well as an associate professor at St. John’s University School of Law, to try and help me work through the different ways the Trump administration is handling companies like Meta and TikTok — and the very concept of free speech online. But these moves are also international in scope: the EU’s Digital Services Act imposes some potentially very heavy and expensive regulations on social media platforms, and if Trump likes Zuckerberg and Facebook enough, maybe he’ll go fight Europe on Meta’s behalf.
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